Job 28:1-28
Since God has given to every person a measure of faith, He has a plan to provide a lower form of salvation for every living image of God in every human not saved by grace. God will one day reactivate the faith of all living humans whom God has punished by His judgment following their physical deaths when He consigns them to one of the three regions of death according to how they lived. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies about a tremendous worship service in which all that God ever created, including all His living humans within the regions of the dead, will return to faith in God the Lamb and submit to the Savior of the world. John 12:47. God's Word also prophesies about this lower form of salvation of the just in Isaiah 45:21-24, Philippians 2:9-11, and in John 5:28-29.
God will use His consuming fire, which also contains the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, to cleanse and forgive all living humans within the regions of the dead so that God can recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolize God's power to cleanse sins by the use of His consuming fire. Isaiah 6:6-7 provides an example of how God can purge sin by the use of His consuming fire.
When Jesus walked the earth, He was both God and man in His physical form. Jesus also fully possessed the Holy Spirit who was also both God and a perfect human spirit at the same time. John 3:34. All living humans must suffer an eternal spiritual death and separation from God if God did not intervene to save them. Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, including His image that He put into every human. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus bore the sins of the whole world on the cross and by the descent of His Spirit into hell. I John 2:2; John 1:29. Those who obtain salvation by grace, Christ saved while on His cross, but His Spirit had to have left the rest of the sins of mankind behind Him in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. This fact can only mean that Christ will save all of humanity not already saved by grace by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-14.
Jesus suffered the eternal, spiritual deaths of all living humans in their place. Hebrews 2:9. Isaiah 53:4 and Matthew 8:17 teach that Jesus took our infirmities on Himself, which includes our sins. Since man's sins cause eternal death and Christ suffered that eternal death in man's place, then in some way, the Spirit of Christ must eternally suffer for man's salvation. Eternal God cannot die, but the perfect human Spirit of Christ could suffer in man's place for eternity. All that was required for man's eternal salvation was that a perfect human die in their place. In other words, the innocent must suffer to let the guilty go free. I Peter 3:18. These facts can only mean that the perfect, human Spirit of Christ has become the lake of fire which eternally engulfs and neutralizes the eternal deaths of all mankind. Hebrews 12:29. Note that this verse does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. It clearly states that He is a consuming fire.
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